Ewen Leslie

Ewen Leslie first appeared on television at the age of 12 and won a scholarship to study acting while still at school. After graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Ewen was cast as the lead in Jewboy, which screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 and at Sundance. Sleeping Beauty is his third feature after Kokoda and Three Blind Mice, which critics at the London Film Festival judged to be the best film in the World Cinema section. Ewen is popular among theatre directors and in 2007 was invited to join the Actor's Company of the Sydney Theatre Company. Since then Ewen has won prestigious Helpmann Awards for Richard III and War of the Roses. In the latter he played Henry V and also won a Sydney Theatre Award for his performance.